Overview

Since
2001, publishing giant Pearson has offered MyMathLab as an electronic –
and now Web-based, of course – complement to its many math textbooks.
Because the program is modular, teachers can choose to use some or all
of the electronic content, as a primary way to deliver instruction to
students or as a supplement to their own instruction. Teachers or
professors can select from the program’s bank of free-response
exercises, edit them, or add their own questions, and have students
complete them a lab setting as classwork or quizzes, or outside of class
as homework.

Through a partnership inked in early 2012
with Knewton -- originally a test prep company that’s developing an
“adaptive learning engine” -- MyMathLab recommends to students what math
exercises they should tackle, based on the content they’ve already
mastered and the level of difficulty and style that seems to fit them
best. MyMathLab also contains an e-book version of the student’s
textbook, video lectures, and animations, and gives students 24/7 access
to Pearson tutors online. Only one 30-minute tutoring session is
included with the student license; additional tutoring time costs about $18/hour. While some students feel that the immediate feedback MyMathLab has been useful, the video lectures have received mixed reviews (though it’s unclear whether that’s due to their quality or the students’ overall preference for in-person interaction) and at least one professor has described the system as somewhat “cumbersome” to use.

MyMathLab is built on MathXL, another Pearson product that acts as a homework, tutorial and assessment system. (MathXL can be purchased separately as a cheaper alternative
for teachers and schools that don’t need the instructional component,
just the ability for students to complete homework, quizzes, and tests.)
Its online gradebook feature is handy for teachers who want to build
the majority of their course around the Pearson content.

While
Pearson doesn’t say how many users have bought access to just
MyMathLab, it does say that more than 9 million students at over 1,900
colleges and universities have used some combination of MyMathLab,
MyStatLab and MathXL.

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PRODUCT VIDEOS

MyMathLab Intro

PRICING PLANS

License

Online course, etextbook and a printed textbook cost around $200 for students; course itself costs $85.50 for most courses.

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS

This product is accessible via a web browser.

This product is available as a native application on the following devices: